Ryan Bowman Banned From Football For Three And A Half Years For Placing 6,397 Bets

The erstwhile Shrewsbury and Cheltenham striker Ryan Bowman has been banned for 3 and a half years for breaches of Football Association betting regulations. The 33-year-old admitted having placed 6,397 bets betwixt 15 June 2022 and 13 September 2023, according to nan written reasons of an independent committee that heard nan case.

Of those bets, 108 were recovered to subordinate to matches aliases competitions involving Exeter during his clip astatine that club, and 243 were recovered to subordinate to matches aliases competitions involving Shrewsbury erstwhile he was pinch nan Shropshire side.

The independent committee which issued nan prohibition said this was “a astir superior case” which “includes a number of egregious examples of breaches of nan FA rules against betting”.

The committee recovered Bowman’s extended usage of different people’s accounts was a superior aggravating feature, and it added it had “no uncertainty this was a further effort by [Bowman] to hide his extended shot betting activity, which he knew astatine each worldly times, was against nan rules”.

Cheltenham, who signed Bowman connected a one-year woody past July, said they were alert he was nether investigation but had not been alert of nan “full extent” of nan matter until October.

“Club officials supported Ryan done what has been a difficult clip for him and contempt his departure from Cheltenham Town this summer, again we would for illustration to spot connected grounds our acknowledgment to him and wish him and his family each nan champion for nan future,” nan nine said.